**Fiona Davis, *New York Times* bestselling author of *The Lions of Fifth Avenue*, returns with a tantalizing novel about the secrets, betrayal, and murder within one of New York City's most impressive Gilded Age mansions.** Eight months since losing her mother in the Spanish flu outbreak of 19
The palace: a Simon Riske novel
β Scribed by Reich, Christopher
- Publisher
- Little, Brown and Company; Mulholland Books
- Year
- 2020
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 261 KB
- Series
- Simon Riske 3
- Edition
- First edition
- Category
- Fiction
- City
- New York
- ISBN
- 0316455946
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β¦ Synopsis
When a man to whom he owes his life reaches out from prison, international spy Simon Riske recruits a daring investigative reporter and a rogue Mossad agent to thwart an international conspiracy targeting major European cities.;Rafael de Bourbon recently married, is days away from opening a luxury boutique hotel off the southern coast of Thailand. When the Royal Thai Police storm the hotel and arrest him for blackmail and extortion, Rafa is thrown into Bangkok's most notorious jail. In desperation, he reaches out to the one man who can prove his innocence: Simon Riske. Once Riske and De Bourbon were the closest of friends, and he rushes to Bangkok to secure his friend's release. Now, caught up in a web of intrigue, it is Riske who finds himself the wanted man, pursued by an international conspiracy that threatens to wreak carnage across the glittering capitals of Europe. -- adapted from jacket
β¦ Subjects
Conspiracies -- Fiction
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